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Stirling Castle was invested on the 20th of April, 1304, and for seventy days held out against all the efforts of Edward's army. Warlike engines of all kinds had been brought from England for the siege. The religious houses of St. Andrews, Brechin, and other churches were stripped of lead for the engines.
To this the seneschal added, "I fear, I fear, we are soon to have another scene of the same sort, for to-morrow the Bishops of Murray, and Brechin, and Caithness, with other dignitaries, are summoned to the cathedral to sit in judgment on the aged priest of Lunan, that was brought hither from Dysart yestereen, and from the head the newfangled heresies are making, there's little doubt that the poor auld man will be made an example.
Prudently leaving Stirling to itself for the present, he hurried to Perth. After spending most of June and July at Perth, he led his army northwards, nearly following the line of his advance in 1296, through Perth, Brechin, and Aberdeen, to Banff and Elgin. The most remote point reached was Kinloss, a few miles west of Elgin, in which neighbourhood he spent much of September.
HENRY COTTERILL, Bishop of Edinburgh; WM. S. WILSON, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway; HUGH W. JERMYN, Bishop of Brechin; ARTHUR G. DOUGLAS, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney; J. R. A. CHINNERY-HALDANE, Bishop of Argyll and the Isles; For the Bishop of Moray, Ross, and Caithness, Primus, ROBERT A. EDEN, M. A., Commissary."
The first impression on approaching from outside is that two western towers stood out in front of the nave, as at Holyrood, or as the single towers at Dunkeld and Brechin. A second glance shows that what seemed to be the lower part of a south-western tower is really a building in advance of such a tower.
E. McTavish of Lindsay, for some time; he then returned to his home to take a situation which had been offered him by Mr. L. H. Staples, as assistant in his general store; he afterwards went to the village of Brechin as Clerk and Telegraph Operator, for Messrs. Gregg & Todd. While there he formed the acquaintance of Mr.
His best known work is Aaron's Rod Blossoming, a defence of the ecclesiastical claims of the high Presbyterian party. Historian, b. at Brechin and ed. there and at Glasgow, wrote a History of Greece from a strongly anti-democratic standpoint, a History of the World from Alexander to Augustus , and a View of the Reign of Frederick II. of Prussia. He also made various translations from the Greek.
But his name had now lost that magic influence which success had once thrown around it; and the several clans shunned his approach through fear, or watched his progress as foes. on Brechin Moor under the command of General Leslie, who was careful to cut off every source of information from the royalists.
The slender round towers of Brechin and Abernethy, and of Devenish and other places in Ireland, capped by a conical stone roof terminating in a single stone, which were for a long time a puzzle to the antiquary, are now ascertained to be simply steeples connected with Christian churches of the tenth and eleventh centuries.
He saw a good deal of service in the navy with credit, and from this drew the inspiration of his vigorous and breezy sea-stories, which include Sailors and Saints , Tales of a Tar , and Land Sharks and Sea Gulls . S. of George G., Bishop of Brechin, entered the army, and served in the Peninsula and America.
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